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Keith Barrow wrote: Nobody, in the whole world, will need more than 2 USB ports.
Nobody at all. Except me. I regularly use at least 7: wireless keyboard, wireless mouse (because the two I like are made by different companies), audio adapter, two MIDI keyboards, Nikon camera adapter, mp3 adapter, occasionally a thumb drive.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Just hitting <ENTER> or <RETURN> on a file or folder in Finder actually puts you in Rename mode (equivalent to F2 in Windows), if you wonder how you execute / open it, its cmd+down.
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"Unfortunately" I have to agree with you ... OSX is "good", but not 2/3/4 times as good as W7/8/10. And yes, I've also noticed the similarity with Unity, though I think it's the other way round: Rather Canonical being "inspired" by OSX. Actually if you try using the newer Gnome (just try Fedora and you'll know what I'm talking about) you'll see even more similar stuff.
So, same as you, I've looked, I've tried, I've been pleasantly impressed with some of it, but no where has it given me any sort of "Wow! Now that makes it worth giving up food for the month!" To the contrary, those things which impressed me were more in line with ... ah! another guy's seen the light and made something similar to X. While the stuff that gives me the heebie jebbies - agh! not another one going down that path! So for the life of me, I cannot understand what the extra cost is for.
For my money I'll stick with KDE thank you very much! At least if it's KDE 4, 5 (with the new Plasma engine) should never have made its way out of alpha testing phase ... it's way too buggy to have a release candidate, never mind being a "default" in the new "Bright and Early" Kubuntu!
Hardware wise I agree, Apples look very nice, they tend to have decent performance, and the laptops are thin, slick and light! But only if you compare them to some manufacturers like Dell and HP ... e.g. if you want it on a diet then Samsung's Series 9 is even slimmer than the Macbook. Or even the new Dell XPS 15 compared to the MacBook Pro - 15mm instead of 16mm.
As for USBs ... when you go for such slim stuff there usually isn't any space on the sides, but also correct - why all those Thunderbolts, so all my peripherals HAS to be from Apple stores too?
modified 29-Jun-15 7:07am.
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I know this is old by now but how are you finding it after a couple of months?
btw, a couple of tips if you haven't found them yet:
- To rename in Finder, select the file and hit return.
- To see file path, View -> Show File Path (Once set, should become your default)
- Full Screen Shot (Shift-Alt-3). You can customise the location it saves to with a couple of commands:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/26/change-the-screenshot-save-file-location-in-mac-os-x[^]
hth
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I am in the process of putting together a little proof of concept. I need to put it up on a web accessible server so that it can be tested. As of now, I do not need / want to front it with a web site. It is a simple app that I hope can be accessed simply by IP address and possibly port. The app is MEAN - Mongo, Express, Angular and Node - and I have it working on an Ubuntu VM here so I'd hope to put it up on a *ux server.
So, I want something cheap* for a short time to test this out. I may want to put a real website in front of it later, but for now I just need a way to get it tested.
Anything?
* no really, as cheap as possible. I'm not even adverse to paying nothing.
veni bibi saltavi
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Funnily I had previously found a similar report to that and I will consider something of that ilk, however I'm also interested in what people use for longer term stuff.
veni bibi saltavi
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I'm hosting most of my stuff on a dedicated CentOS box, it's sat playing nicely on a not particularly beefy VM on a server somewhere in the bowels of the office. CentOS is imposed on me by the techies, it's the only Linux distro they are prepared to support, and is command line only. I'm not using the full MEAN stack, just the "M" bit missing, though I'm working on an API sat on an SQL MariaDB server so, if it had an acronym would be a SEAN stack I suppose.
I don't know how much experience you've got with linux, it'd put myself as journeyman at the very best, on a good day, but I'd be more concerned to get a distro with good community support rather than tailored to the tach. CentOS has relatively little compared to Ubuntu server, but I dare say it is more lightweight. The MEAN stack is very portable - until recently I was devving under Win, but deploying to Linux, so you can always switch distros later I suppose.
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Keith Barrow wrote: a SEAN stack I suppose
Never ever say you're playing with SEAN, the ramifications are just too *shudder*
veni bibi saltavi
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Let's just say this: Mankinis, mankinis everywhere!
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It's almost as if you want it to happen...
veni bibi saltavi
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Damnit!
That means I get to do it tomorrow...I didn't think it was that hard...
Does he always play this in a Bedfordshire town? (8)
LUTENIST
Anyone want to explain?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Explanation? No.
Comment? Yes.
Regionalizations, as in Bedfordshire, Luten, etc will reduce the number of people who will even hazard a guess because many do not know the geography.
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Indeed, especially as it's actually Luton! Besides the clue appears to suggest that your looking for the instrument not the player of it ..
Quote: Does he always play this in a Bedfordshire town? (8)
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Member 9082365 wrote: your you're looking for
FTFY.
You know, for a cruciverbalist, that's a punishable offen'c'e. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Member 9082365 wrote: your you're looking for
FTFY.
You know, for a cruciverbalist, that's a terrible mistake to make.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Dammit! I shall have myself secretary flogged in the morning!
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I'm giddy as a schoolboy!!!! 
I love amusement parks with comic book themes! Used to work for Disneyland Paris[^] many years ago, and I still miss it a lot!
Asterix is actually an exception. I don't care much for that comic, so I have never had any urge to visit Parc Asterix[^].
But I just read that next year, they will open a new theme park, Parc Spirou[^] in Monteux, near Avignon. Spirou is definitely a favourite, and they will have Lucky Luke characters there as well. Hope they also include Gaston Lagaffe.
I can't wait. Best of all: It's located in a part of France I've never been, so I get to see Provence as well!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Yeah, as far as that is concerned, I think I'll wait for the comic book to come out...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Oh man, did you read the comments other people made in the article; some of them are NSFW 
So its properly soapbox material 
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I read the first page and there's no offensive language - I assume it degenerates on later pages?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Some good old British imperialism going on there
They weren't always so nice you know.
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Johnny J. wrote: It's located in a part of France I've never been
I thought all of France was a comic book theme park. 
Marc
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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